GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| indenture | a document or a section of a document that is indented |